Field Reports
Duck Camp Dinners: Back to the Bayou
We start this episode of Duck Camp Dinners in East Texas hunting for woodcock. We then head back to Louisiana to fish on the bayou.[…]
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Fishing
Bowfishing is hot topic at June LWFC meeting
The bowfishing community viewed the LWFC June meeting discussion as another attempt by some to make bowfishing illegal.[…]
Field Reports
Catch and cook: Bowfishing
In this Outside the Levees video, Jared Serigné went bowfishing with his friend Tyler and his little buddy Jackson.[…]
Field Notes
Give bowfishing a shot
Jeremy Cable and his family operate Lite ’em Up Bowfishing, a charter service that specializes in nighttime fishing excursions in Cocodrie.[…]
Field Reports
Bowfishing in the Hopedale marsh
Shawn Nelson and his dad both got to experience bowfishing together for the first time and had a blast catching redfish and gar in Hopedale.[…]
Fishing Tournaments
Bowfishing Championship set for Bossier City
The U.S. Open Bowfishing Championship, the largest event of its kind in the fast-growing sport of bowfishing, is coming to Bass Pro Shops in Bossier City in April.[…]
Redfish
Brand new Sportsman TV: Bowfishing Dularge reds
Arrows were flying for the latest episode of Sportsman TV, when host Greg Hackney and the crew traded in their rods and reels for bows and arrows and experienced some intense bowfishing action out of Dularge.[…]
News Breaker
World bowfishing record redfish stuck out of Cocodrie
As a bowfishing guide, Capt. Jeremy Cable has stuck more than his share of redfish in the marshes around Cocodrie — but never one like he shot late on Wednesday, Nov. 1.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Bowfishing ‘black eye’ undeserved, bowfishermen say
After the hunt, while floating quietly in the black night and enjoying a soda, I found out why David Lastrapes asked me before the hunt what I expected.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Pro bowfishing tips
With a little coaching, bowfishing techniques are easy to learn, even for the most inexperienced.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Top bowfishing tools
Early in the evening, Roy Lally IV explained the tools of the trade to me, starting with the most obvious: bows.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Best times to go bowfishing
By the very laws of nature, much fishing and hunting is cyclical and seasonal. Not so with marsh bowfishing, Capt. Graylin Schultheis said.[…]
Contents
Dark arrows — Top tactics for coastal bowfishing
It wasn’t like shooting fish in a barrel. I thought they would be just kind of sitting there, hovering helplessly in gin-clear water, hypnotized by the boat’s bright lights.[…]
Alligator
Bowfishing guides busted for illegal alligator hunts, LDWF says
The owners of Louisiana Bowfishing Inc., along with a guide who works for the charter service, were arrested this week in connection with alleged illegal alligator kills as part of their operation, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries reported today.[…]
Currents
Don’t like bowfishing? Don’t do it
Just a few years ago, Louisiana Sportsman published a feature story about a hunter whose technique of choice was taking really, really long shots at deer.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Bowfishing bill pulled from consideration
The bill that aimed to ban bowfishing for redfish was pulled today (April 21) by Sen. Dan Claitor, who said one of the main reasons was unfavorable public input.[…]